nual ceremonies on the mountain of Posilippo; and it was there that Boccaccio, quasi da un divino estro inspirato, resolved to dedicate his life to the The influence of the associating principle is finely exemplified in the faithful Penelope, when she sheds Od. xxi. 55. tears over the bow of Ulysses. If chance he hears the song so sweetly wild The celebrated Ranz des Vaches; cet air si chéri des Suisses qu'il fut défendu sous peine de mort de le jouer dans leurs troupes, parce qu'il faisoit fondre en larmes, déserter ou mourir ceux qui l'entendoient, tant il excitoit en eux l'ardent désir de revoir leur pays. ROUSSEAU, Dictionnaire de Musique. NOTE n. P. 27, 1. 2. Say why VESPASIAN lov'd his Sabine farm. This emperor, according to Suetonius, constantly passed the summer in a small villa near Reate, where he was born, and to which he would never add any embellishment; ne quid scilicet oculorum consuetu dini deperiret. SUET. in Vit. Vesp. cap. ii. A similar instance occurs in the life of the ve nerable Pertinax, as related by J. Capitolinus. Pos teaquam in Liguriam venit, multis agris coemptis, tabernam paternam, manente forma priore, infinitis ædificiis circundedit. Hist. August. 54. And it is said of Cardinal Richelieu, that, when he built his magnificent palace on the site of the old family chateau at. Richelieu, he sacrificed its symmetry to preserve the room in which he was born. Mémoires de Mlle. de Montpensier, i. 27. An attachment of this nature is generally the characteristic of a benevolent mind; and a long acquaintance with the world cannot always extinguish it. "To a friend," says John Duke of Buckingham, "I will expose my weakness: I am oftener missing a pretty gallery in the old house I pulled down, than pleased with a saloon which I built in its stead, though a thousand times better in all respects." See his Letter to the D. of Sh. This is the language of the heart; and will re mind the reader of that good-humoured remark in one of Pope's letters-" I should hardly care to have an old post pulled up, that I remembered ever since I was a child." POPE's Works, viii. 151. Nor did the Poet feel the charm more forcibly than his Editor. See HURD's Life of Warburton, 51, 99. The elegant author of Telemachus has illus trated this subject, with equal fancy and feeling, in the story of Alibée, Persan. See Recueil de Fables, composées pour l'Education d'un Prince. NOTE 0. P. 27, 1. 3. Why great NAVARRE, &C. That amiable and accomplished monarch, Henry the Fourth of France, made an excursion from his camp, during the long siege of Laon, to dine at a house in the forest of Folambray; where he had often been regaled, when a boy, with fruit, milk, and new cheese; and in revisiting which he promised himself great pleasure. Mem. de SULLY, ii. 381. NOTE P. P. 27, 1. 5. When DIOCLETIAN's self-corrected mind— Diocletian retired into his native province, and there amused himself with building, planting, and gardening. His answer to Maximian is deservedly celebrated. He was solicited by that restless old |